[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:02:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> The "pet release goals" that we are aware of are:
> 
> [...]
>
> - UTF-8 locales by default

This means we should solve somehow the problems of the console.  I've
heard some of the other distributions have somehow achieved better
Unicode support on the console.

> - a true system locale that doesn't depend on the /etc/environment
>   config file, in order to support localized boot processes

This means that the setfont and console-chars utilities have also to
be moved from /usr/bin to /bin.

It is possible to use the boot loader - grub or lilo - to load the
font very early but I don't know if it is possible to switch to
Unicode mode that early.  Maybe there is some handy boot argument of
the kernel?

Anton Zinoviev